As of November 1st, meeting centers and event halls, including hotels, will be able to accommodate business and academic activities for up to 150 people.
In addition, in the specific case of social activities such as tea baskets or weddings, the maximum allowed capacity will be 30 people, also without the inclusion of those in charge of attending the event, reported the Costa Rican Tourism Institute.
Although the government did not extend the State of Calamity and since October 1, Guatemala has been allowing the holding of events, fairs and concerts, the sector's businessmen believe that it is not profitable to hold meetings in which an area of 10 m2 per attendee is required.
It is estimated that more than a thousand events of all kinds are held annually in El Salvador, generating an economic output of around $100 million.
In 2018, five fairs and more than 1,063 private events of all kinds were held just at the Centro de Ferias y Convenciones (Cifco), for which the center budgeted around $11 million for activities.
Marta Cecibel Lau, the president of Cifco, told Elsalvador.com that "...
The Tourism Authority informed CCA-Cocige, responsible for building the Convention Center in Amador, the intention to cancel the contract because of critical flaws in the design and infrastructure.
The work was originally awarded to HPC Contratas P&V, but in 2016, after work was halted for 24 months because of a liquidity problem, the project was assigned to the CCA-Cocige consortium.
Proyecto, Ejecución y Control de Obras S.A. was awarded the contract to design and build the Boquete district convention center in the province of Chiriquí, Panama.
On January 14th, the resolution of the contracting process for the study, design, construction, equipment and commissioning of the Convention Center in the Western Region, located in the village of Alto Boquete, was published in the PanamaCompra portal.
Construction Management Group and the Consortia Desarrollo Boquete, Proyecto-ECI and Centro de Convenciones del Occidente, presented their offers to build the convention center in the province of Chiriqui, Panama.
"The Project consists in the design and construction of a Convention Center measuring approximately 6000 square meters and improvements to the site, including parking, landscaping, public spaces, signage and access roads described in these documents, for a global amount reflected in the reference price of the General Conditions.
The Tourism Authority of Panama is putting out to tender the study, design, construction and equipment of a convention center in the province of Chiriqui.
Panama Government Purchase 2018-1-45-0-04-LV-013192:
"The Project consists in the design and construction of a Convention Center measuring approximately 6000 square meters and improvements to the site, including parking, landscaping, public spaces, signage and access roads described in these documents, for a global amount reflected in the reference price of the General Conditions.
In Costa Rica, hotels and companies in the sector are preparing themselves with expansions and new services in order to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the new convention center.
The recent inauguration of the new convention center, with 16 thousand square meters and capacity to hold up to 5,600 people at the same time, promises to boost the country's hotel activity, particularly in the Greater Metropolitan Area.
In Panama, it is expected that the convention center that is being built in Amador and which will be completed by the end of the year will generate $18 million in its first twelve months of operation.
Construction of the amphitheater, being done the consortium CCA-Cocige, is almost 70% complete to date, and it is expected that it will be finished by the end of 2018.The administration of the convention center will be the responsibility of the American company SMG, which was selected last September by the National Council of Tourism.
The administrator of the new convention center in Costa Rica plans to start operations in April, and in the next four years it is expected that 60 congresses will be organized, which will generate $180 million.
Nacion.com reports that "...The Colombian consortium, Heroica-Volio Trejos, is fine-tuning details such as the hiring of employees, the reception of the list of activities already sold by the ICT and some logistics adjustments in the building, in order to realise the opening of the National Congress and Conventions Center (CNCC by its initials in Spanish)."
Fifteen event organizers in Europe may be interested in using the Panamanian convention center between 2019 and 2022.
The Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP) reported that some 15 companies organizing events in Spain, Germany and Russia have shown interest in using, between 2019 and 2022, the facilities of the Amador Convention Center under construction, whose construction will be finished next year.
A consortium formed by the Colombian Grupo Heroica and the Costa Rican Volio y Trejos won the contract to manage, as of April 2018 and for four years, the new convention center.
The process of constructing the National Center for Congresses and Conventions is 80% complete, and it is expected it will be finished and ready to be inaugurated in April 2018.
The US company SMG has been chosen to manage the Panamanian convention center, which is under construction and will be ready to operate next year.
Minister Him detailed that the selection of the managing company was made at the request of the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Tourism and the National Tourism Council. SMG will be in charge of the operation, maintenance and marketing of the convention center. The only process left pending is approval from the Cabinet Council.
The Guatemalan government has announced that in two weeks it will publish the tender documents for the feasibility study and master plan to build a Convention District.
A year after the government's interest in developing a large convention center in the capital was announced for the first time, the project has been brought back into the limelight.